Vegas 2012 Day 1

PIC HEAVY!

Hello beautiful people! It was Babe's birthday just this previous weekend and I wanted to do something special, so I booked our flight and hotel for Sin City, Las Vegas.

Friday, June 22, 2012 - Saturday, June 23rd, 2012
The day of, Babe and I had dinner with his brother and his brother's girlfriend at a sushi restaurant close by to the airport. Initially, our flight itinerary was to depart from our hometown at 9:00pm and arrive in Sin City at about 11:30pm. Unfortunately I was not notified of the flight adjustment which delayed our flight until the estimated time of 12:00am. Even worse was the fact that we got to the airport around 8:00pm, therefore we had 4 hours to rot to death. Close to our expected 12:00am flight, we got up to get some Pinkberry frozen yogurt to keep us company. The minutes ticked down to when we would finally board our flight. As if waiting for our delayed flight wasn't torture enough, there was a girl at the restaurant laughing a drunk loud laugh. And if those two aforementioned things weren't enough, there were a group of annoying girls signing Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe". Someone please shoot me now. How can you be so hyperactive at such a time. At 11:38pm, the woman at the gate via loudspeaker that the plane will be touching down at 12:30am and that we would get out of the airport at 1:30am. R U SHITTING ME?!!!??!?!!11 Our flight was supposed to be at 9:00pm, delayed to 12:ooam, delayed to 12:30am, now 1:30am. Luckily, if you wanna call it that, we boarded the plane around 1:ooam-ish and indeed left at around 1:30am.

During the ride, I was trying to take a picture of babe and some guy came over and got in the picture. An hour and a half later, we were finally in Sin City. The line for the taxis weren't that bad but we still had to wait in line. Finally we got a taxi and great... we got a douchebag. Blonde spikey hair, ugly tattoos on his forearms, bluetooth in his ear, blasting his ghetto wangsta rap. It's 3am! We just got off a delayed flight! Can you be a little respectful? By the time we got to our hotel, the beautiful Aria Hotel and Casino, it was already about 3:30am. I went up to check-in and the computers were down for maintenance. OH GREAT. So we had to wait 10 more minutes to check in. C'MON GAIZ! You're cutting into my Vegas time! Finally we were able to check in, so we went upstairs and dropped our stuff off. We needed some drinking water so we walked to the CVS close by to buy a gallon of water. Afterwards we came back to our room and got ready for bed.

I woke up around 8:45am and babe fully woke up at around 10am. We got ready and went to eat at the Wicked Spoon buffet located in Cosmopolitan Hotel and Casino. The presentation award goes to Wicked Spoon because the food was presented in cute and individual plates. After stuffing our stomachs, we got some photo-ops in with the shoe in the foyer.

We headed back to Aria then tried to hit the pool. The pool was practically full, each chair and inch of the 2 large pools were filled.

After failing miserably trying to chill at the pool, we went back to our room and decided to go to to Serendipity for a late lunch snack. Babe ordered the quesadilla and the one and only frozen hot chocolate. Don't be fooled like I was. I thought frozen hot chocolate and going to be a mixture of hot and cold chocolate sundae or something. Instead, it was a iced hot chocolate drink with whipped cream. And yes it was delicious. Wait for a seat was quite long tho.

After having our late lunch snack, I suggested we head over to Paris Hotel and Casino for their souvenir cup. Upon ordering, the bartender carded us and saw that it was babe's birthday. Then he proceeded to double the dosage of vodka into the souvenir cup. Afterwards, we headed back to our hotel to get ready for babe's birthday dinner.

For the night, I made reservations for Del Monico's Steakhouse in the Venetian Hotel and Casino. I ordered the filet mignon and potatoes gratin, while babe had the ribeye and the jumbo crab side. Initially, the steak was quite delicious, towards the end however, it was quite meh.. I could taste the herbs and spices like they were just sprinkled on the filet. The waiter even happily took pictures as we requested. Quite a good photographer as well. After dinner, we hailed a cab back to Aria and relaxed. Our day was quite long and babe got hungry again so we ordered some room service.

Checking in!



Pimp a$$ Virgin Airlines


"C'mon man! Let's take one for Virgin America!"

The view from our room



Our bathroom





Super comfy bed






Stocked mini bar

Pigeon seat

On our way to Wicked Spoon




THE shoe.

On our way to the pool. I believe this is Chill Restaurant

Hanging out. The pool was so nice!

Passing by the Bellagio

Menus

Decor

Fwozen hawt chocolate

Hanging out at Paris


Ready for dinner!

Bread



My filet mignon


Potato gratin

Babe's rib eye

$16,000 for a bottle o' wine

:D

Ze corridors of the Venetian



View from the taxi line

Room service!

Happy happy!

June 1, 2012
On the ride home from Pismo Beach, Alan mentioned a sushi place that he thought was good. I went a couple years ago with my BFF but I didn't think it was that special. Time to revisit with Babez. This time around, I actually thought it was good. We got multiple "rolls" in 2 piece portions. After eating there I had a revelation... sushi rolls should be no more than 1 piece each person and unique. Sure large, massive rolls are good for your wallet and tummy but small portions let you try multiple flavors and textures. I'm not a big sushi fan, really but I know what I like now. :) After dinner we tried a new Japanese dessert place. I ordered the fruit box which was good but way too sweet and Babe's mochi tasted like cardboard.

June 8, 2012
Dine About Town! Select restaurants with a prix fixe menu for only $34.95!!! This is a deal! Especially restaurants that are "$$$". Babe took me to Bisou for dinner, which was a quaint and trendy French bistro. I had the foie gras appetizer, foie gras steak entree and salted caramel dessert. The foie gras appetizer was disgusting because 1) it was served cold, 2) it felt like I scooped a spoonful of butter in my mouth. If you've had real, warm foie gras, it's already a slimey and oily texture. Enough to turn people away from it, but oddly enough not me. Foie gras just shouldn't be served cold I guess. My foie gras steak made up for it after, however. The foie gras and steak was succulent and delicious, no complaints here. The salted caramel dessert wasn't bad either, it didn't taste like a generic salted caramel, this one had real salt rocks in them! There was also a yummy little crunch to it maybe from some kind of nut? Pretty good overall, just not the foie gras appetizer.

June 9, 2012
I've been implementing badminton almost weekly now! I'm happy! I miss my old love of the sport. After I changed, I realized I didn't bring my shoes... -_-' Therefore, we had to go to Tanforan to buy me some new shoes. They're pretty cool! I think they're the lunareclipse shoes. I still kick everyone's butt with no shoes. :D After their badminton beating, we all went to go eat lunch at Ali Baba's to eat Mediterranean food. I got the lamb, which was pretty good and I tried a bit of falafel.

June 14, 2012
Babe and I grabbed some dinner from Pasta Pomodoro, lol. This place has really good bread, but everything else is kind of meh... This time around I ordered the marsala and babe had the lasagna and a side of broccoli. The marsala had a heavy wine taste to it and the lasagna didn't have as much flavor as I thought it would.

June 15, 2012
Babe and I are going to be out of town this coming weekend and I wanted to take him to eat prime rib. Unfortunately, HOPR couldn't accommodate us, and I had to choose elsewhere. We went to San Mateo Prime once again. Made it there about half an hour late but they were still so empty! Their prime rib is warm, juicy and delicious, Idk why people weren't lining up out the door for it. We also got a piece of tiramisu for dessert, for free!

June 16, 2012
Its winding down closer and closer to Babe's birthday! AGH, I'm so excited! :) It was a gorgeous day, finally, so we had a picnic in the park. In the evening, it was Babe's birthday dinner at yummy Anh Hong. This place has mouth-salivating food, srs. After dinner, they brought out the beautiful strawberry charlotte cake that I had ordered for him. I swear it looked way bigger in the picture online than in person. Still very pretty and yummy nonetheless.

Chef setting a roll ablaze.















Lamb

Chicken

Lasagna

Marsala

Babe's side of broccoli

Hey, who's that?

Very sweet Zinfandel

Petite cut

:)

On ze house!

Picnic!

Fatty


Our family portrait

I look cool, blurry

Bowling time!

ATV cherry

I bid you farewell. A couple weeks ago for the Memorial Day weekend, my friends and I hauled ass and headed to Pismo Beach. We left Sunday night and got there early Monday morning, the 4 hour drive there wasn't that bad actually. We got there pretty quickly and checked into our hotel room. After checking in we went to McDonald's for a late night snack and brought it to the hotel to eat. After that we went to sleep. We woke up and all went downstairs to get some breakfast. They have pretty good free breakfast lol. Frosted flakes, fruit loops, danishes, oatmeal, fruits and you can make your own waffles. After grabbing breakfast, Alan mentioned a place that served really good clam chowder. To Splash Cafe we go then. It wasn't all that far away and it was pretty hot when we got to the restaurant. We went up to order our food, I got the crab clam chowder, and babe got the salmon tacos. We got an absentminded cashier so when the food came out, I had no crab in my clam chowder and babe got a salmon sandwich instead of a salmon taco. SHEESUS, then it was another $1 for the crab meat. The clam chowder was only good because it had the crab meat in it, otherwise it wasn't all that great.

After our lunch, we went to the ATV rental place to what else?? Rent ATVs obvi! It was really windy and cold when we got to the rental place and fine grains of sand was blowing all over the place. We had to look for parking so we could go in and pay for the rentals and there was a small parking lot but it was full. Stupidly, we tried to go into the parking lot anyways, while there was a large mound of sand in our way. Ultimately, we got stuck and everyone had to push the car out lol. Parked around the long strip of ATV rental places instead. It was so windy and there was so much sand, my corneas are scarred I bet.

Finally we paid for our ATVs and had to pay $5 to drive on the beach to the trailer that had our ATVs waiting for us. Felt kinda cool driving on the beach... but $5 wth? We got to the trailer and parked our car and got suited up for ATV riding! WHEE! We had to listen to one of the guys explain in depth about the dunes and etc. He made it sound like a death trap or that we would get lost, I was pretty terrified. After the excruciating in depth explanation, we were taught how to ride our bikes and rode around the little practice area. After everyone was on track, we headed towards the larger dunes. I kid you not, there was an area called, "Sand Highway". After passing the limit line of "Sand Highway" I felt like I was in Dubai, surrounded by so much sand I could suffocate. I was still a bit terrified but then I started to get ballsy and wanted to ride up and down the blunt cut offs. We rode around for a bit and then everyone started to surround Anita. Didn't see anything happen but she fell off her bike and landed on the back/neck! OMAIGUT! She tried to go up a pretty big dune but fell off. I also fell off but thankfully no one really saw. ^__^ Babe claims he did but I don't think so. I wasn't even going up a really big dune like Anita was and I fell off. I was still clenched onto the bike when I was in the air but I let go luckily. -_- How embarrassing.

Soon enough our 2 hours of ATV riding was up so we left to go back home. Ahh, ATV riding was fun! So glad that I did it. :)

Getting stuck part 1

YEAAAA BUDDYYY

Ze girls.

Hey, das meee!

Rollin' like a big shot

His Honda tuned up like a Nascar pit stop.

You killen meh, King

Hey! Deres me again

Who's this foo trying to match with me.

Getting stuck part 2